Tanis: rains and ruins

Cite as: Bonsall, J. (Ed.) 2015. Weather Beaten Archaeology Conference: Revealing, Concealing & Erasing. Institute of Technology, Sligo, 7-8 March, 2015. Programme & Book of Abstracts Coastal archaeological sites have always been vulnerable to erosion. In recent years this vulnerability has become a contentious issue when a variety of archaeological sites across Northern Europe were impacted by the winter storms of 2013-14. Stone forts fell into the sea. Castles crumbled to the ground. Shipwrecks, middens, timber trackways and ancient drowned forests were revealed for the first time in centuries. Heritage venues were flooded and a large number of archaeological sites were washed away entirely. The annual winter storms now regularly require rescue work by governments and archaeologists, allow chance finds by members of the public and have necessitated the creation of citizen science schemes to report vulnerable / newly discovered sites. The Weather Beaten Archaeology Conference is the first of its kind and will establish a forum for the exchange of experiences of extreme weather events and their impact on archaeological sites.

2018

NASA recently published a visual model depicting the varying concentrations of airborne particles-or aerosols-present around the earth on August 23, 2018 ("Just Another Day"). The Goddard Earth Observing System Forward Processing (GEOS FP) model measured airborne sea salt, dust, and black carbon particles in blue, purple, and red, and mapped elevated concentrations of those aerosols onto a darkened image of the earth as seen from space. The

pre-master paper : Alexandria center for Hellenistic studies, 2015

It was the capital of the nineteenth Lower Egyptian Nome, Later during Third intermediate period it became the northern capital of Egypt and the royal residence of the kings of the XXI and XXII Dynasties. A great quantity of gold and silver artifacts was found in Tanis, much jewelry like pectoral, necklaces, and ankle bracelets,in addition to gold funerary masks, Statues, sarcophagi of black granite, gold and silver, canonic jars to contain the viscera. These artifacts are mainly displayed in a number of European museums like Louvre in Paris, while the others are exhibited in the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities and they are called “The Treasures of Tanis". The presence of all these objects explains the belief of the ancient Egyptians and even the foreign rulers who integrated into the Egyptian society even adopted its cult and traditions

2020

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In 1851, the region of Sicily experienced many rainstorm-induced landslides. On 13 March 1851, a rainstorm brought about a severe rockfall disaster near the small town of Sclafani (Madonie Mountains, northern-central Sicily, Italy). Rocks detached from the carbonate crest of Mt Sclafani (813m above sea level) and fell downslope, causing the collapse of the ancient hydrothermal spa (about 430m above sea level) and burying it. Fortunately, there were no injuries or victims. Given its geological, geomorphological and tectonic features, the calcareous–dolomitic and carbonate– siliciclastic relief of Mt Sclafani is extremely prone to landsliding. This study combines the findings of detailed geological and geomorphological field surveys and of a critical review of documentary data. A thorough analysis of documentary sources and historical maps made it possible to identify the location (previously unknown) of the ancient spa. The rockfall dynamics was reconstructed by comparing field reconnaissance data and documentary sources. The 1851 event reconstruction is an example of the application of an integrated methodological approach, which can yield a propaedeutic, yet meaningful picture of a natural disaster, paving the way for further research (e.g. slope failure susceptibility, future land-use planning, protection of thermal springs and mitigation of the impact of similar disasters in this area). Indeed, the intensification of extreme weather events, caused by global warming induced by climate change, has increased the risk of recurrence of a catastrophic event, like that of the ancient Sclafani spa, which is always a potential threat.

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Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2001

Archaeological research on disasters has increased substantially since Sheets's 1980 review of the topic, and with heightened media coverage and funding for the study of such events, archaeological interest will continue to grow. This paper examines how prehistorians have incorporated disasters into their research since 1980, using the literature on El Niño as an illustrative case, and assesses this work in relation to geographical approaches to disaster as well as concepts that have been developed within the “new ecologies.”

Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2016

2011

In this talk we survey selected rediscovered historical severe storms from a cultural historical perspective. Specifically, we investigate a severe storm that destroyed the Parish Church at Widecombe-in-the-Moor in Dartmoor (UK) in 1638. Moreover, we report on two severe storms that uproofed houses and uprooted trees in Vienna (Austria) in 1604 and about two hundred years later in 1807.